Arthur C Clarke Award shortlist announced
It doesn’t appear to have made it onto the official website yet, but the BSFA forums have the shortlist for this year’s Clarke Awards:
- The Red Men – Matthew de Abaitua (Snow Books)
- The H-Bomb Girl – Stephen Baxter (Faber & Faber)
- The Carhullan Army – Sarah Hall (Faber & Faber)
- The Raw Shark Texts – Steven Hall (Canongate)
- The Execution Channel – Ken MacLeod – (Orbit)
- Black Man – Richard Morgan (Gollancz)
Your yearly instalment of controversy starts here!
I’m thinking of starting a shadow award that works off of the Clarke, wherein there is a prize for the book that everyone thought was a shortlist shoo-in, and another prize for the book whose presence on the shortlist no one can understand. Now accepting nominations!
March 10th, 2008 at 10:30 am
Brasyl, Ian McDonald
March 11th, 2008 at 3:03 am
Brasyl, Ian MacDonald x2
March 11th, 2008 at 12:30 pm
I think almost every response I’ve seen to the shortlist is people going “Interesting, but where is Brasyl?” I realise it’s a juried award and maybe those 6 people just didn’t like Brasyl much, but I was surprised to see it missing given there’s such a consensus that it should have been on there.
March 11th, 2008 at 12:42 pm
Indeed. If nothing else, this nigh-global consensus suggests the BSFA novel award may be a foregone conclusion …